Lightman, Alan P., 1948- <br/><br/>
The diagnosis  : a novel 
/ Alan Lightman 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : Pantheon Books  , c2000 
 - 369 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, "his head pounding, remembering too much," a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition. By turns satiric, comic, and tragic,The Diagnosisis a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780679436157 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00024543 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Executives----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3562.I45397  / D5 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC LIG